Anything you can tell me about Short Pump?

[camer]

Originally Posted by mrstewart

Well, not nearly the same amount of cars but there are areas (west) and there are so many hills and these make for many dangerous blind spots. It also seems the lights are completely off so you will hit every red light...

I fell in love with the "so many hills" when we were in VA last summer.
It may get old once we are there but by golly, your state is absolutely beautiful. As long as the traffic isn't like NoVA or the SF Bay Area,
I'll be content.

Thanks

[camer]

Originally Posted by ellieb128

For that neighborhood I think you get to bypass Hull Street!

Whew.

[hazfora]

Originally Posted by ric75

Your best option for getting away from the snootiness (living in the City) is unfortunately one of the worst options for schools unless your kids are in elementary and you can live in Stratford Hills, the Fan, or possibly a few areas in the Northside. That or private school of course. But Short Pump is definitely not a great place if you are trying to get away from the Joneses. Who knows though. You have a couple months to adjust and you may love all the chain shoping options and perhaps people won't be as bad as you think they are going to be. There are always exceptions to the rule and often stereotypes are overblown. I have a friend out in the Shot Pump area and we give him a pretty hard time about it but he's a down-to-earth guy and I'm sure there are many others like him out there. I just get the sense that a lot of people live out there because they think they are supposed to or because they think it offers some sort of elevated social status.

I'm tired of hearing people comment on moving out of a certain area to get away from the keeping-up syndrome. IMO it's up to the individual to follow the crowd just to feel accepted or be confident with your own choices and not get intimidated by hoity-toity people who behave like that precisely because they are trying to prove something. These people are not accustomed to their "upgraded" lifestyle and have the need to be uppity about it. People of good breeding don't behave like that, so I'd find friends elsewhere. Give them the who-are-you-to-judge-me-look -- and look the part. My point is, if you behave like an ignorant hillbilly and you have neighbors of the opposite spectrum, what did you expect?

[Meme Implanter]

Stayed at Oakwood. It's fine for temporary housing. It has a nice pool, tennis courts, BBQ area, and is conveniently located near restaurants and stores.

Short Pump is TOTALLY auto dependent. You cannot walk from Oakwood to... anywhere. It's not Short Pump's fault as sidewalks do not exist anywhere in Richmond's poorly designed exurbia.

Short Pump is a mecca for all things chain: retail, restaurants, and home-builders. It's all surface parking and vinyl siding. There are strip malls on literally every corner.

Very bourgeois: no history, no character, no originality, no charm.



Midlothian has some promise. It's also very auto dependent, but has the benefit of having some nice original homes and new, new urbanist neighborhoods. Oak Park off Robious/Huguenot is very nice.

Personally, I'd advise against anything on the NE side of Genito on Hull St. and east of Woolridge on the Midlo TPK. Hull St is another crass retail assault on the senses altogether: cul-de-sacs feeding into giant collector road strip mall.